Category Archives: San Fernando Valley

Random shot

Posted on June 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

I passed this car — covered with computer keys — on the Golden State Freeway on my way to the site of a Pacoima plane crash. Photograph by Larry Harnisch Los Angeles Times

Posted in San Fernando Valley | Tagged 1957, car, computer keys, freeway | 2 Comments

May 28, 1957 Los Angeles Former Nazi prisoner 33822 sat at the defense table, her hands clasped tightly. Her light blue cotton dress was wilted from the heat and her dab of lipstick only accented her jail pallor. Police said … Continue reading →

Posted in #courts, Homicide, San Fernando Valley | Tagged #Holocaust, #Studio City, 1957, Auschwitz, homicide | 4 Comments

Jealousy slaying

Posted on May 2, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 2, 1957 Los Angeles Meet Henry C. “Clay” Hamby, 42, who lived with his wife, Mildred, and three children in a 944-square-foot home at 14519 Paddock St., in Sylmar. Clay is a drophammer operator at Reylon Precision Products, a … Continue reading →

Posted in #courts, Homicide, San Fernando Valley | Tagged 1957, insanity, jealousy, Pacoima, Shooting, Sylmar, Van Nuys, violence | Comments Off

A knight on the town

Posted on April 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 29, 1957Los Angeles When I saw this ad, my first reaction was: “You have GOT to be kidding me.” My next reaction was: “Maybe it’s still there!”

Posted in Food and Drink, San Fernando Valley | Tagged #restaurants, 1957, dining, Encino, San Fernando Valley, theme restaurants | 1 Comment

Rigoletto Village

Posted on April 29, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 29, 1957 Los Angeles One of my favorite adventures while working on the 1947project was revisiting old neighborhoods that I found in The Times real estate sections from 1907, a feature I called “Architectural Ramblings.” Exploring the city, I … Continue reading →

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The bad dream

Posted on April 23, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 23, 1957 Los Angeles "It’s like a bad dream," he said. "You keep thinking you’ll awaken and find it’s a bad dream." Edward Simon Wein, given five death sentences under California’s "Little Lindbergh Law" for a series of kidnappings … Continue reading →

Posted in #courts, Caryl Chessman, Homicide, Long Beach, San Fernando Valley, Venice Division | 3 Comments

The honorary mayor of Sherman Oaks

Posted on April 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

Liberace on Edward R. Murrow’s "Person to Person" Email me

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This is your life

Posted on April 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

April 19, 1957 Los Angeles Your name is Jay. You are 55. You grew up in the San Fernando Valley–15224 Willard Way in Van Nuys, to be specific. You were adopted at birth by a couple named Strickland: Jane and … Continue reading →

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The Floods

Posted on January 10, 2007 by lmharnisch

Jan. 9-10, 1907 The worst storm in 23 years blew across Southern California with the force of a gale, dumping more than an inch of rain in Pasadena, killing an Orange County rancher, washing out railroad tracks and collapsing tunnels, … Continue reading →

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Runaway Flats

Posted on April 26, 2006 by lmharnisch

Water is not the only thing that flows downhill, as switchmen at the downtown Southern Pacific freight yard discovered when two runaway flatcars made a 13-mile trip from the San Fernando Valley in 10 minutes.Although the runaway cars sent people … Continue reading →

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